Show BITTER RIV RIVALRY AiRY BETWEEN V TWO JWO SUGAR CITIES I pr- pr Mrs 1 J. J M. M MBrooks Brooks the tle wife of a prominent prom prom- nent Saginaw l Mich lawyer and Miss JLouise Louise C. C Whitney of Bay City Mich ire jare re the at-the Ke on Kenyon-on their way hornet home They have haye been ma long stay in California Mrs l Brook having been there for nine months Both ladles ladies ag agreed eed that they liked Catalina island nd be better er than any other place they h had hd d d. d Miss 1 Whitney said that she especially enjoyed her stay there on ott account of the golf links which she she declared was vas th the most sporty In California I r liked Sa San Rafael next next best best because because be be- cause cause t they ey d d the i next best links there The club is called th the Happy ValI Valley Val Val- ley lay Golf club and they haVe hae a splendid l I pavilion You can just get most anything anything anything any any- thing you order to eat or drink I saw an interview In your paper yesterday with a gentleman from Muskegon Muskegon Mus- Mus Mich said Mrs Brooks It stated that the lumber Interest had dwindled to insignificance in Michigan which is perfectly correct But I take exception to his statement that Muskegon Muskegon Muskegon gon was ever the lumber centre of the world even although it may have had two forty-two saw mills at one time Why eight or ten years ago before before the lumber business began to td play out we had fifteen miles along the S1 Saginaw ina v river front with nothing them but saw mills and and lumber Of f course that thatis t is all a thing thins of the past now the vs and antl Bay ay City and 9 oth l r lumbering lum lurn- bering bering- towns have t have had to turn to new Industries Saginaw has a large plate-glass plate factory factory factory fac fac- tory now and a sugar beet factory But Butth th the gr greatest line of activity is soft coal mining Recently soft coal was discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered on the Harry Bates Bates' estate and coal is being extensively mined While you are talking of ot your beet- beet sugar factory in Saginaw dont don't forget fors-et to mention that there are four beet- beet sugar factories s' s In City interpolated inter- inter Miss Whitney There is the greatest amount of rivalry between n the two cities which are only about twelve miles apart always was and always will be and the two ladies ladles have lots lotsof lotsof lotsof of fun sticking sUcking up for their respective cities Saginaw claims population population tion and Bay City And besides continued Miss Whitney Whit n ney ny y you forgot to tell teU hUn him that we have two chickory factories and you haven't any In your old bid Sag If we took in West Bay City and like you did East Saginaw we would have a larger city than you have |